Hacker News: irrelative

New comment by irrelative in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)"

irrelative — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:04:35 +0000

Regard | Senior Engineers | NYC, SF, LA | Full-time

Regard is a New York City–based AI health-tech company building the next generation of clinical insights software. Our platform uses machine learning and large-scale data to help clinicians synthesize patient history, recommend diagnoses, and automate documentation. Series B funding.

I'm Justin, the CTO. We're looking for engineers able to leverage current and future AI technologies for product development and platform enhancement. Generative AI experience is required.

Stack: Python, ts, k8s, AWS, postgres Contact: Email me at justin.davis+hn2602@regard.com with your resume and link to a project you've built.

New comment by irrelative in "FP8 is ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it"

irrelative — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:07:54 +0000

Correct, this is the actual headline too. 100 tflops sure seems like it'd be more than that, but here we are.

If the headline was "FB8 is ~7% faster when kernel name has 'cutlass' in it...", it wouldn't seem sensational.

New comment by irrelative in "Jimmy Carter has died"

irrelative — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 22:24:46 +0000

Flying is incredibly less expensive largely due to deregulation, and Budweiser has always been brewed with rice. So, yes, this is winning.

New comment by irrelative in "Ask HN: Why is .NET never talked about as an option for solo/small team dev?"

irrelative — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 03:25:18 +0000

It is, and small teams were often rebelling against incumbents, so rejecting the aesthetics of big companies was a good way to attract talent.

New comment by irrelative in "Pipe Syntax in SQL"

irrelative — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 16:32:22 +0000

Seriously. It’s not like that was the actual purpose of html or anything.

New comment by irrelative in "The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing"

irrelative — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:34:49 +0000

Hadn't thought about it this way before, but given that LLMs are auto regressive (use their own data for next data), they're sensitive to error drift in ways that are rather similar to analog computers.

New comment by irrelative in "We've already seen category 6 hurricanes – scientists want to make it official"

irrelative — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 02:21:37 +0000

Classic spinal tap. “These go to eleven.”

New comment by irrelative in "Finance worker pays out $25M after video call call with deepfake CFO"

irrelative — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 14:56:39 +0000

Only if it works >4% of the time.

New comment by irrelative in "Scale of methane leaks from fossil fuel production and landfills exposed"

irrelative — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 22:04:34 +0000

Well a carbon tax would essentially end coal.

New comment by irrelative in "Japan ANA Boeing 737-800 flight turns back due to cockpit window crack"

irrelative — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 16:59:39 +0000

Or perhaps you overestimate how many people hold any view of Boeing at all.

New comment by irrelative in "A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant"

irrelative — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 21:24:26 +0000

While I'm sure some chemical byproducts come out of that, it's important to note that hydrocarbons assuredly make some really nasty stuff along the way [1]. I also wish there was a way to more easily compare these things, but the misinformation around environmental data is really next level. General, consider thinking about renewable infrastructure as more of a stock that accumulates vs fossil fuel usage which is a flow.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Alley

New comment by irrelative in "Cicadas are so loud, fiber optic cables can ‘hear’ them"

irrelative — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 03:56:05 +0000

(slightly) less pop science version: fiber optic cables are so sensitive, they can even detect the sounds of cidadas.

New comment by irrelative in "Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco"

irrelative — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 23:26:34 +0000

Watts aren’t energy, so no idea what this means.

New comment by irrelative in "SQLite 3.43"

irrelative — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 23:11:04 +0000

Anyone know why this chart[1] hasn't been updated in a while? One of my favorite displays of incremental improvements in a project.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/cpu.html

New comment by irrelative in "Live Starlink Satellite and Coverage Map"

irrelative — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 03:13:28 +0000

Roughly 30 times faster than an airliner.

New comment by irrelative in "You could have invented futexes"

irrelative — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 13:27:19 +0000

Note that futexes aren’t especially new to Linux anyway. They first appear in kernel version 2.6 released in 2003.

New comment by irrelative in "EU was set to ban internal combustion engine cars, then Germany changed its mind"

irrelative — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 15:24:01 +0000

Or we could make a generalized solution, like a carbon tax, that will minimize the government picking winners.

New comment by irrelative in "These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us"

irrelative — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 22:31:11 +0000

I agree it's not wrong to like trucks, and that hating on the owners is a cheap shot. I also think that this video points out the externalities that trucks impose. In a rational society, one would expect the government to address these externalities, but here we are.

New comment by irrelative in "The Inner Beauty of Basic Electronics"

irrelative — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 01:20:33 +0000

The low voltage side of a transformer needs to handle more current. You could use the same gauge on both sides and get the same voltage, but you'd experience more losses.

New comment by irrelative in "Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices"

irrelative — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:45:10 +0000

Sure, could be simpler, but there's a spec and multiple implementations: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4180.html And the spec is ~5 pages.

Not sure why NDJSON is considered simpler, as json objects can be arbitrarily nested. Breaking into records is easier, but parsing is harder.